This will include an exploration, by guided coach, of a major area of Sweden’s rich industrial archaeology: the Stockholm / Gavle / Falun / Eskiltuna quadrilateral, the Iron Route.
Key visits will include Stockholm – Skansen, the world’s first open air museum with the possibility to visit the silk-weaving, the technical, or the Vasa museums according to choice.
Sala: silver mine with buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries and a mine visit.
Gavle: the Swedish Railway Museum, noted for its locomotives, a large site with two former roundhouses.
Falun: a copper mine working from the 13th century until the 1990s with open pit, early buildings and machinery - a world heritage site.
Angelsberg: one of the world’s most important remains of the early industrial age; blast furnace, forge hammer, water-powered blowing engine. A world heritage site. Plus the Oil Museum – a refinery dating from the pioneer years of the oil industry - 1870s onwards.
Eskilstuna: the Sheffield of Sweden with the Rademachers Smithies.
Tumba: Paper mill dating from 1755, supplying the Bank of Sweden with banknotes ever since.
Look out for details, when available on the Heritage website - http://www.heritageofindustry.co.uk - and register your interest.
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